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  • RE: Very Urgent Please Someone can?

    What do you mean by resume?

    Can you explain clearly what you've done, what the problem is and what help you need?

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
    SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

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  • RE: Sql Server 2005 - Takes time to update

    Did you read the article that I references?

    I don't see table definitions, I don't see index definitions and there's no execution plan.

    Also, have you checked to see if the...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
    SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

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  • RE: Taking backup of few tables

    Not with the native backup tools. Some 3rd party backup tools do have that feature.

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
    SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Paul White (8/6/2009)


    I wonder if it is the same guy? He certainly seems spookily similar in posting style...?

    Don't think it is. The PhD candidate has complained in the past...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
    SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

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  • RE: Taking backup of few tables

    Why backup several tables to file? Are you not taking database backups? If you are, why also backup the tables to file?

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
    SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

    We walk in the dark places no others will enter
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  • RE: Sql Server 2005 - Takes time to update

    Can you post at least the query? Almost impossible to give useful advice on performance without seeing code. Also the exec plan, table definitions and index definitions. Please take a...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
    SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

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  • RE: Sql Server 2005 - Takes time to update

    Please don't cross post. It just wastes people's time and fragments replies.

    No replies to this thread please, direct replies to: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic766034-360-1.aspx

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
    SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

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  • RE: Disable and enabling index frequently

    What do you mean by 'impact on the size of the column'? A column size isn't affected by creating indexes.

    Why on earth are you storing a guid in a...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
    SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

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  • RE: Disable and enabling index frequently

    Jeff Moden (8/2/2009)


    Even if you could, I wouldn't do that. What would happen to the index if you were inserting rows with the index turned off? They would...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
    SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

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  • RE: Disable and enabling index frequently

    If you disable an index SQL drops the index tree completely, leaving just the metadata bahind. When you re-enable the index, the index is completely rebuilt from scratch, just as...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
    SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

    We walk in the dark places no others will enter
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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Jeff Moden (8/5/2009)


    He's mine, please... all mine... pork chops in progress. I don't want to start a dog pile on him, but he's mine.

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic765935-8-1.aspx

    You have noticed that the OP...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
    SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    If you want singing.....

    http://12seconds.tv/channel/CraigN/218481

    On the left, Nicholas, an Exchange MVP. On the right, Zlatan, a Sharepoint MVP.

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
    SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Bob Hovious (8/5/2009)


    I know... otherwise I would never have dared to say that 😉

    I more meant in general. That wasn't the only session that I played, just the only one...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
    SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    I was playing guitar, not singing

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
    SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

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  • RE: Included Columns

    If you include all the table columns as include in every index then you're incuring major overhead in two places.

    1) Space. Each index will be the same size as the...

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
    SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

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